Americans can enjoy some fine acoustic music from across the
An hour of highlights from the Cambridge Folk Festival that took place in late July, aired on the Mike Harding Show on Wednesday, August 1, can currently be heard on the BBC Radio 2 website at www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/. You will hear performances by Nanci Griffith, Kate Rusby and Martin Simpson, among others. There’s also a link to a Cambridge Folk Festival mini-site, where you can view photos and videos of them and other artists – including Joan Baez, Bruce Cockburn, Steve Earle, Fiddler’s Bid, Sharon Shannon, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and The Waterboys: www.bbc/co.uk/radio2/cambridgefolkfestival/2007/. Rusby is Harding’s featured guest on his August 15 broadcast, while Fairport Convention is a focus of his August 8 program.
On his show, Sands customarily shares a blend of traditional and contemporary folk music and son with his listeners, interspersing news of new releases and upcoming gigs in
Other Celtic music radio programs of note include “Celtic Heartbeat,” a two and one-half hour show hosted by Frank Hennessey that airs Saturday evenings on BBC Radio Wales and features traditional and contemporary folk and acoustic music; “Reel Blend”, hosted by Robbie Shepherd Sundays on BBC Radio Scotland, and “Celtic Fringe,” James McKeefry’s two-hour program that airs Wednesdays on BBC Radio Leicester.
Singer-songwriter Johnny Coppin hosts “Folk Roots,” a Sunday afternoon program on BBC Radio Gloucestershire that features acoustic, Celtic and traditional music. Genevieve Tudor’s “Sunday Folk” on BBC Radio Shropshire features two hours of traditional music from the
Providing an American perspective for Scottish radio listeners and others is singer-songwriter Dean Friedman (“Ariel”), who hosts “Real American Folk” Thursday evenings on BBC Radio
And this Thursday, August 9, at 2 p.m. ET, “Bob Harris Country” on BBC Radio 2 airs an interview that Harris recorded with
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